In the Name of God Amen This
twenty ninth day of June in the Year of our Lord one thousand Seven
Hundred & Ninety four- I Edmond Kearney of the state Northcarolina and
County of Warren being at this Time But week of body but of a disposing
mind and Memory thanks be to Almighty God for the same- Calling to Mind
that it being Appointed for Man to die and not knowing how soon my
Change May come do Ordain this my last Will and Testament first
resigning my Soul to him that first Gave it me hoping for Mercy and to
be received into the Number of the Blessed above through the Merrits and
Intercession of Jesus Christ the Righteous Redeemer and as for my Mortal
Body I Desire may be Commited to the Earth and buried in a Christian and
Decentlike Manner at the Discsresion of my Executors Hereafter Named and
As for my Worldly Estate the blessed Lord has been pleased to bestow
upon me I Give and Divise in Manner & Form following.

First that all my Just debts be Honourably paid and
my Funerall Expenses discharged

I Lend unto ,y beloved
Wife Sarah Kearney all that part of my lands & plantation included
Westerdly or above the following Line Beginning at the Mouth of my
Spring branch where it Emptys into ready Creek in the Mill pond. Then
running Up the sd branch to the head there of then running a straight
Line to the head of the Persimmon Branch then Down the Persimmon branch
to my back or out line. Also my Negro boy Sam during her Natural life.
I Give my said beloved wife my five following Negroes. Easop Sippo Cato
Rachel and Lucy and that she dispose of the same as she may think proper
so that it be to any of my children or grandchildren. I Give my said
beloved wife the one half of my stock of cattle with a;; the rest of my
Stock of Every Kind a;; my household & kitchen furniture. And plantation
Utensils which shall be On or belonging to the plantation where I now
live.

I Lend
unto my beloved Daughter Mary Harris my Negroes to Witt; Juba Serenah
Isham Kitty Warren Easter Green and Caswell with their Present and
future Increase During her Natural life. I will that my Daughter Mary
Harris at any time before or at her Death alott the aforesaid Negroes &
their increase to her Children as she may think proper (except her son
Edward Harris and Daughter Sarah Williams who I have & will provide for)
such allotment or Gift Made by her the said Mary Harris to her children
in that case I Give Such allotted Negroe or Negroes to such Child or
Children & their Heirs.

I Give unto my beloved
Daughter Sarah Alston my Negroes Jack and Hasty with their present and
future Increase which Negroes I heretofore possessed my said Daughter
with to her and her Heirs.

I Give unto my beloved
Grand Daughter Sarah Williams my Negores Liza Martin and Betty with
their Increase to her & her Heirs.

I Give unto my beloved
son James Kearney all the rest of my Estate be it of What sort Kind
Nature or Quality soever and not before Particularly Given away at the
time of my decease with that part of my Land lent unto my beloved Wife
with the Negroe Sam lent he aforesaid at her decease to him and his
Heirs.

I Nominate and Appoint
my beloved son James Kearney and Son in law James Alston to hole and
sole Executors of this my last will and Testament Disannulling all will
or wills made by me. In Witness where unto I have set my hand and affix
my seal the day & Date before Written.

Sign’d Sealed & Delivered
Edmd Kearny {Seal}

In Presence of

Will. Johnson Jurat
James Johnson Jurat

Warren County December Court 1794

This Last Will and Testament of
Edmond Kearny Dec’d esd proved in Open Court by the Oaths William
Johnson and Jamed Johnson and Ordered to be Recorded whereupon James
Kearney one of the Executors herein Named Qualified as such and took
upon himself the Execution thereof.

Test M’Duke Johnson
CC

(Transcribed from a copy of the original made at NC
Archives in Raleigh.--SJWM)